Dan Anderson

Emeritus Leslie P. Schultz Professor of Risk Management and Insurance, Department of Actuarial Science, Risk Management and Insurance at the Wisconsin School of Business and Emeritus Professor, Nelson Institute for Environment Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison. B.A. (1965) Yale University; M.B.A. (1967) and Ph.D. (1970) University of Wisconsin-Madison; CPCU (1971).

Author of recently published book entitled Corporate Survival: The Critical Importance of Sustainability Risk Management. Author of over 100 professional articles, monographs and book chapters. Presented papers at numerous professional meetings and invited speaker before numerous groups. Major research interests and areas of expertise include government insurance programs, catastrophe insurance, liability risk management, analysis of insurance company insolvencies, financing asbestos liabilities and Superfund/hazardous waste liabilities, and sustainability risk management.

Served for 17 years as the Chair of the Actuarial Science, Risk Management and Insurance Department at the University of Wisconsin. Over the last decade, has led the development of sustainability management and environmental strategy courses and programs in the Wisconsin School of Business. Recipient of Ford Foundation, National Science Foundation, Spencer Education Foundation and National Association of Insurance Commissioners Research Grants. Three times designated Loman Research Fellow by the Harry J. Loman Foundation. Recipient of Larson Excellence in Teaching Award, Gaumnitz Distinguished Faculty Award, and the Insurance Educator of the Year Award. Winner of Society of Insurance Research Competition and the Shin Research Excellence Awards. Recipient of Journal of Risk and Insurance Award. Past President, Board of Directors, and various committees for the American Risk and Insurance Association, the leading professional organization of professors of risk and insurance, and publisher of the leading professional journal, the Journal of Risk and Insurance. Past Vice President, Board of Directors, and Chair of Research Committee of the International Insurance Society. Consultant on various projects.

Practitioner-Oriented Publications

Eggert, T. & Anderson, D. & Meissen, R. & Sandborg, V. (2004). Partners In Learning: How A Business School And A Company Worked Together To Advance Sustainability.

Article AbstractThis chapter describes an innovative project between an Environmental Strategy class at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Baxter International, a global healthcare company. Benefits and challenges for the nine student groups that each worked with a Baxter contact will be discussed from the students perspective, the professor’s perspective and Baxter’s perspective.
The project was mutually beneficial to both students and Baxter. The students gained a more practical knowledge of sustainability and learned about the challenges that companies face in becoming more sustainable. The research benefited Baxter in its continuing drive toward enhanced sustainability by giving it a more complete picture of the state of sustainability and focused information on specific areas.
The authors give details on organizing the project, challenges they encountered results of the project, and recommendations for others interested in initiating such a partnership.

( 2002 ) The Impact and Implications of the World Trade Center Attacks on World Insurance Markets

( 2002 ) A Risk Managment and Insurance Perspective on the 'New Terrorism'"

( 2002 ) The Impact and Implications of the September 11 World Trade Center Attacks on Risk Management and Insurance Markets

Interdisciplinary Environmental Seminar ( 2002 ) Insurance and the Management of Risk: September 11 as Case Study of Unnatural Disaster

Undergraduate Courses

Sustainble Envir&Soc Risk Mgmt (RMI 650 Section 1), Spring 2009.

Sustainbl Envir&Soc Risk Mgmt

Course DescriptionThe assessment, control, financing and management of risks deriving from pressures on and damages to the environment, workers and local/foreign communities. Risks include liability and directors and officers law suits, boycotts, regulations and competitors' actions.

Course DescriptionThe assessment, control, financing and management of risks deriving from pressures on and damages to the environment, workers and local/foreign communities. Risks include liability and directors and officers law suits, boycotts, regulations and competitors' actions.

(RMI 650 Section 1), Spring 2007.

Life and Health Insurance

Course DescriptionDetermination of human life values and the conservation of those values through personal and business life and health insurance; a consumerist orientation that develops a scheme for rational buying behavior; analysis of contractual provisions; introduction to mathematics of life contingencies and pricing.

(RMI 630 Section 1), Fall 2008.

Life and Health Insurance

Course DescriptionDetermination of human life values and the conservation of those values through personal and business life and health insurance; a consumerist orientation that develops a scheme for rational buying behavior; analysis of contractual provisions; introduction to mathematics of life contingencies and pricing.

(RSK 630), Fall 2001.

Life and Health Insurance

Course DescriptionDetermination of human life values and the conservation of those values through personal and business life and health insurance; a consumerist orientation that develops a scheme for rational buying behavior; analysis of contractual provisions; introduction to mathematics of life contingencies and pricing.

(RSK 630), Fall 2002.

Life and Health Insurance

Course DescriptionDetermination of human life values and the conservation of those values through personal and business life and health insurance; a consumerist orientation that develops a scheme for rational buying behavior; analysis of contractual provisions; introduction to mathematics of life contingencies and pricing.

(RSK 630), Fall 2004.

Life and Health Insurance

Course DescriptionDetermination of human life values and the conservation of those values through personal and business life and health insurance; a consumerist orientation that develops a scheme for rational buying behavior; analysis of contractual provisions; introduction to mathematics of life contingencies and pricing.